Cli command, bigpipe

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A CLI command available on F5 BigIP platforms; used to configure the bigpipe shell environment.

Usage Syntax

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bigpipe cli [font color=deepskyblueoptions/font]

Common options include;

• audit (disable | enable | verbose | all) - modify auditing configuration, the default is disable; if enabled the audit log is stored in /var/log/audit
• hostname lookup (enable | disable) - enable or disable hostname lookup which allows host names to be entered in bigpipe commands rather than IP addresses, the default is disable
• ip addr (name | number) - specify how host objects are displayed in command output; either as numerical IP addresses or host names (where possible,) the default is number
• service (name | number) - specify how service objects are displayed in command output; either as numerical TCP/IP port numbers or service names (such as http,) the default is name

Usage Examples

bigpipe cli audit enable - enable cli auditing

bigpipe cli \{ audit enable hostname lookup enable ip addr name \} - enable cli auditing and hostname lookup and display host objects using host names, where possible

Usage Notes

The bigpipe shell environment in this context is any bigpipe command entered at the CLI as well as bigpipe commands entered in the actual bigpipe shell launched with the bigpipe shell command.

It is good practise to change the default service parameter setting to number as service names can change between major versions or cause upgrade issues (e.g. SOL11293.)

Bigpipe Usage Notes

font color=redFrom v9.4, be aware of the administrative partition that is currently active;/font use the bigpipe shell partition command to display the current active partition name and the bigpipe shell partition name command to change partitions.

A full command manual can be displayed using the man command followed by the command name, for example: man pool or by suffixing the command name with the help keyword, for example; bigpipe pool help.

In most cases, the font color=purpleshow/font keyword displays object status or statistics and the font color=purplelist/font keyword displays configuration. URemember/U, from v9.4, only objects in the currently active administrative partition will be displayed.

The bigpipe command can be abbreviated to just b (e.g. b help instead of bigpipe help.) Alternatively, (from v9.4,) you can use the bigpipe shell to enter commands without prefixing them with bigpipe.

Where curly or normal brackets {}' or () or quotes ' or exclamation mark ! are required as part of a command and you are not using the bigpipe shell, they must be proceeded with a back slash \ to prevent the BASH shell from parsing them as system commands.

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Typical Output

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bigpipe cli list all;

cli {
   partition Common
   audit disable
   hostname lookup disable
   import save 2
   ip addr number
   service name
}

Availability

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v9.x Software

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